Wisconsin native, conservative critic of everything.
"Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God." ---G K Chesterton
"The only objective of Liberty is Life" --G K Chesterton
"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions" --G K Chesterton
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Saturday, May 18, 2013

Domenech Is Right. Drat It!

...The point is that these scandals cut at the core conceit of Obama’s ideology:
the healthy and enduring confidence of big government to be good
government. As technological capabilities advance and the scope of
government expands, the types of domestic scandals we’re seeing here are
only going to increase in frequency and invasiveness, with personal
information shared more frequently, easier for even low level
bureaucrats to acquire and manipulate. At the same time, Americans are
becoming increasingly skeptical and cynical about their public
institutions, with their trust
in the federal government at historic lows. They distrust the agencies
and bureaucrats even as the politicians of our age are investing more
and more power in them.

Today, the media, the Obama administration, and David Axelrod
are undertaking the task that conservatives could not: illustrating
with each passing day that the progressive approach to modern governance
and policy is inherently flawed and that vast governments are ripe for
abuse. What we are seeing from the IRS and the DOJ is not something new,
nor does it represent a perverse approach to benign bureaucracy: it is
the inevitable consequence
of an approach which puts mechanisms in place and then assumes they
will not be used for ill. You should expect government to go as far as
it can, whenever it can, in any ways that it can, toward the full
exploitation of the power made available to it. Expecting government to
behave otherwise is to expect the scorpion not to sting the frog....

One doesn't have to mention Nixon (who, after all, established the EPA) to bolster Domenech's point, although it is certainly consistent to mention him. It IS fair to mention that no one laid a glove on him on this count; his desires were unrequited.

For that matter, look at the "reforming" Gov. Scott Walker's failure to reduce State government's scope and budget.

...The truth is, Obama and Holder and Hillary Clinton likely won’t fall
because they will find protection in the arms of the ruling class, while
lower-level functionaries will act as fall guys and scapegoats. And
that’s because it is, as I’ve been saying, not a real two-party system
any longer, but rather the ruling class vs. the rest of us....